My advice is not to use Get Latest Revision ever, but always know which exact submitted changelist is your workspace at, and so which submitted changelist is the base of your local changes you have in your files currently checked out, or files on your shelved changelists.
On top of that, a file can be checked out to have some local changes, which then you save to a shelved changelist. #29), most probably retrieved when updating entire workspace at once using a command like Get Revision or Get Latest Revision. Each file in your workspace is a copy of the file from the repository in some specific version (e.g. Shelved changelists and submitted changelists have very little in common except their name. Remember which submitted change do you base on Selection in Workspace tab will switch to it immediately.Ģ.
to check it out, just copy the full path of the file to system clipboard and paste it in this “address bar”. When you work on some file in another tool and you want to jump quickly to it in Perforce, e.g. It shows the path of the currently selected file or directory in Depot or Workspace tab. Perforce window has a text box on the top that resembles address bar in web browsers. Writing them down was difficult as they seem obvious to me, but hopefully some of them are not obvious to you so you will learn something new. While working with Perforce for many years in different companies and projects, I learned some good practices that I would like to share here. there is “Submit” instead of “Commit”), but the whole concept of “changelists” is something that needs to be well understood to be used efficiently. Not only commands are named differently (e.g. I talk about the size of one local copy here, not the entire repository on the server.įrom user’s perspective, Perforce differs greatly from Git or SVN. Even if the files have tens or a hundred of gigabytes, it still works fine. Perforce handles large binary files very well. Whether it is better or worse is hard to tell, but it has its advantages that make it indispensable in some types of projects, like game development. Among them, Git is probably the most popular one. Perforce also provides basic built-in defect tracking, is integrated with several leading defect tracking systems, and includes a kit that allows users to integrate Perforce with the defect tracker of their choice.Version Control Systems are tools that every programmer should use. The Perforce Reporting System tracks metrics like the number of changes in a release or who has files open for edit.
The Windows GUI and browser-based clients provide a user interface for all SCM tasks.
The command-line client is 100% scriptable, 100% portable and available on more than 50 platforms. Perforce's self-maintaining and reliable database keeps data safe. Inter-File Branching helps to manage multiple development lines and easily integrate changes between branches.
The server's repository sits on a central host client workspaces can be anywhere on the network - around the office or the world.Ītomic change transactions ensure access to a consistent repository state at any point in time. Perforce works well even on limited bandwidth networks. The client/server architecture scales to hundreds of users and millions of codelines.
Perforce provides software developers with fast and reliable SCM to manage source, document and Web content. Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) System, provides powerful version control and workspace management with a unique branching model.